FBI lists Gavin McInnes’ ‘Proud Boys’ as extremist group with white nationalist ties

It was revealed today that the Proud Boys, an all-male group of activists started by Gavin McInnes, is considered by the FBI to be an “extremist” group with ties to white nationalism.

The Guardian broke the news earlier today, based on an internal document that was provided to them.

“The FBI has warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific north-west,” reads the document from the Clark County Sheriff’s office in Washington state.

The internal affairs investigation report was obtained by the non-profit Property of the People, a government transparency group.

Here’s more from the Guardian.

The author of the document, headquarters commander Michael McCabe, is in charge of internal affairs, training, background investigation and courthouse security in the Clark county sheriff’s department.

After confirming the authenticity of the document, he told the Guardian in a telephone interview that the FBI’s classification of the Proud Boys as an extremist group was revealed to him in “a briefing we were given by the FBI” on 2 August, at Clark county’s west precinct.

The briefing included agency heads from local law enforcement, and in it the FBI said that they “have been warning [local law enforcement] for a while” about the Proud Boys, “not just in Washington but around the nation”.


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